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When I was in high school in America, I didn't see anyone who looked like me - hardly ever. I just thought that was normal because you don't know any better. So I used to idolize so many other people, like Sarah Michelle Gellar on 'Buffy.'
Priyanka Chopra
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I've been arrested many times for illegal high wire walking and illegal street performing.


Philippe Petit
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I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.
Philippe Petit
Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems.
Temple Grandin
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There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.
Nicholas Mosley
Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
Ben Stein
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I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it.


John Eaton
I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.
Stevie Nicks
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It's not easy to be my sons because we're very high profile. We try so hard to give them a normal life. I'm very, very tight with them about money. I don't give that money until they ask, 'I need 100 yuan for my lunch card,' and so on. So they never have extra money.
Zhang Xin
I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When you are such a loser, it's a helpful way in to a lot of characters because even very powerful people are not all that powerful, really.
Sigourney Weaver
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Well, I've had a long standing relationship with Gatorade and they've been very, very good to me. And I believe in their products, I really do. I've used them for many, many years.
Bill Parcells
The coupling of aryl halides with copper at very high temperature is called the Ullmann reaction, which is of broad scope and has been used to prepare many symmetrical biaryls. However, when a mixture of two different aryl halides is used, there are three possible biaryl products.
Akira Suzuki
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If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition.
Thomas Perez
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Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together.
Chiaki Kuriyama
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I'm used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festivals and wear fancy clothes and try and look glamorous and intelligent when you're just terrified and you want to go home!
Tatiana de Rosnay
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My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.
Norah Jones
I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.
Jimmy Carter
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I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high.
Philippe Petit
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It's very easy to walk on a wire if you spend a whole lifetime practicing for it.


Philippe Petit
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I know how to waltz because I used to teach ballroom dancing when I was in high school.


Christopher Gorham
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